Evernote launched an update to Skitch for Mac and iOS Thursday, adding a number of new PDF features to the desktop and mobile versions of the app, as well as new stamps and a plain text option for filling out forms. Annotating PDF documents involves simply dragging a document onto Skitch, and then annotating items that need to be changed using shapes, arrows and text. A Highlighter feature lets yo

[wp_scm_mash_choice] Forget the upcoming Ashton Kutcher film. It's all about Justin Long and his performance in iSteve, Funny or Die's new Steve Jobs biopic that debuted Wednesday. If you worship the cult of Mac, drop everything you're doing and spend the next 78 minutes watching this. (For a teaser, check out the video below.) iSteve feels like the 2.0 version of This Is Spinal Tap -- only much g

Twitter's new standalone music service finally arrives today on your desktop, but even more importantly, on your go-everywhere iPhone. The social media company unveiled the new service on Good Morning America and in a blog post. Called "Twitter #music" -- yes, the hashtag is intentional --the app "uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks

Yahoo's Weather App Uses Flickr To Show You Weather Conditions Ever wonder what a sunny day in Maui looks like? How about a cloudy day in Seattle? Yahoo announced a new standalone weather app Thursday -- Yahoo! Weather for iPhone -- that uses location-specific images to show you what weather conditions look like around the world at any given time, all right from your smartphone. "Today what we do

LinkedIn has updated its mobile app for the first time since 2011 and will run a small test of "sponsored content" i.e. ads in the stream. The test comes after LinkedIn announced a similar test of sponsored content in its iPad app in January. This would be the first time a LinkedIn phone app would sport the ads. Like other recent app updates, the update for iOS and Android has a heavy emphasis on

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In January 2005, legendary car designer Henrik Fisker founded a company to bring innovative new thinking to the automobile industry. Between that date and today, Fisker Automotive would create perhaps the most beautiful car ever made, raise almost $1.4 billion dollars from

Users Stay Longer on Tumblr Than Facebook, Says David Karp Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed on stage at a paidContent conference in New York City Wednesday. That's about a minute-and-a-half longer than the average Facebook visit, and a few minutes longer than the average Twitter visit, he said. "Does Mark [Zuckerberg] know that?" Kar

One year ago Read It Later officially changed its name to Pocket. Originally a service for just saving online articles to read later, along with the name change Pocket also added the ability to save other types of content, such as images, videos and recipes. The service also became free for users. In the past year the company has expanded to several new platforms: Mac, Chrome and Safari. Pocket us

In a tersely written post to Tumblr's staff blog last week -- one that inspired a winning satire from The New Yorker's Caitlin Kelly -- Tumblr CEO David Karp announced that Storyboard, a company-sponsored blog that chronicled the people and creative work of Tumblr, was shutting down immediately. Three of the people who worked on the project were fired, leading many (ourselves included) to speculat

Tumblr has long been a silent communicator. The company keeps its staff blog focused on the creative side of things, while its support blog seems to have little to do with site notifications—not even when Tumblr unveils site-wide changes that drastically affects its 100 million users. Often the changes go by largely unnoticed and unremarked; other times, they spark sitewide bafflement and outrage,